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Chicago police are right 99.9% of the time.

Ok, now the Hawks obsession is getting to be a bit much. (8 Hawks related threads on the first page). The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup. The Wings did not. Everything's still going to be okay. Though that is freakin hilarious.

He desperately needs a new hair style.

He isn't... and I doubt he's yours either. He's a cab driver who took as much out of a situation as possible and blew it up as much as he could. He also was very obviously after $ for the situation and not any sort of correctness or court decision. I assume he's quite happy now. There's a whole thread devoted to this elsewhere in general discussion. Edit: After watching the video.... It's not even funny (Hudler was so much better with his drunken speech), and what's with this wannabe wrestling belt? Chicago marketing team feeling the need for more awards?

You guys are right, it's just another excuse. I mean what kind of guy plays more hockey than anyone in the league the last 3 years and then has the nerve to suffer the effects of it. I mean what a pansy. With what he's being paid he has no right to be hurt. He should be smart enough to use that money to buy time off or something so he's not getting hurt all the time.

You're too soft, back in the day, it would have been a nice hit and solid play.

I like this Idea, Said player should also have to wear the C.

The League isn't very happy after hearing that all the goal judges from the SCF have filed workers' compensation claims due to CTS.

Actually, someone out there might be willing to bite on Huet if he comes with a free Versteeg. Versteeg would be payment for them eating Huet's brutal contract and would probably be just the kind of thing someone would be willing to do just to get Versteeg. A team like Atlanta might do something like that just because they have the cap room and Versteeg is a good young player.

The point is there will be no dynasty in Chicago due to poor management. Yes they won the cup, but had they done it right, they could possibly have been a dynasty team for the next decade or so. As a Red Wings fan, to me, that's more important. Of course they have bragging rights like the 2004 Tampa Bay Lightning did.. but it only lasts for one year. In 2 years nobody is really going to remember the Blackhawks because they won't be contenders. While the Detroit Red Wings will be right in there every year and will always have a legit chance to bringing the cup back home where it belongs. For that reason, I point and laugh.

That's funny... because I've never seen a poster more preoccupied with what other people are posting about. Still trying to determine if this makes you a hypocrite... I'm thinking yes.

You've yet to give me a reason why any of us are supposed to care what Blackhawks fans were chanting at their parade. I'm being dead serious. Why is there a thread about this, why are people pissed off by it, why should people care. Help me out. I wasn't aware that as a Red Wings fan, I was supposed to give a s*** about what they said.

toook the words right out of my mouth

I don't quite think you realise the depth of your problem - you have just 14 players signed for ~$58M. ie you're right at the cap and 8-9 players short of a roster. Add to that the bonuses due to Toews + Kane and suddenly you're ~$4M OVER the cap and you're STILL 8-9 players short of a roster! You need to waive/trade Huet just to get back beneath the cap (and now you're 9-10 players short with no goalie). Forget about re-signing your RFA's for the moment, if every player you sign from now on is on Minimum Salary you still need to create another ~$5M in cap room to do that. Obviously Campbell is the albatross hanging round your neck right now, but he has an NTC so you can only waive or buy him out. If you waive him, you're paying a guy $7.1M a season for the next 6 years to play in the minors (and I'm sure the NHLPA will have something to say about that), although you might get lucky and someone might be prepared to pick him up on waivers. Or you can buy him out and have a saving of ~$4.8M, but a cap hit of $2.4M for the next 12 (TWELVE) years, and now you're 10-11 players short of a roster. You're almost enough below the cap to fill out your team with min salary players but you have only 3 defencemen and no goalie. You listed Hjalmarsson and Niemmi in your core 10, but they are both RFAs earning $0.6M + $0.8M respectively and you have no spare money to re-sign them with the raise they deserve. If you want to keep them the only way to find the money is to trade one of Sharp/Bolland/Versteeg/Butmuffin (and now they need to be replaced too). Can you even afford to offer your RFAs offer sheets? What if no-one else offers them a contract? Now you're left with even more players you can't afford. And good luck keeping Seabrook the year after that. Look, we all knew this was coming from the second Chicago signed Hossa - everyone on here said the same thing "Chicago better win the cup this year cos they're screwed after that". Congrats, you managed it but you're about to find out what Anaheim, Detroit and Pittsburgh found out about winning the cup - the key is good players on Entry Level Contracts which allow you to fill out your roster with decent players. Anaheim - Perry + Getzlaf on ELCs Detroit - Zetterberg, Cleary, Franzen, Filpulla, Hudler, Sammuelsson all earning MUCH less than they are now Pittsburgh - byebye Scuderi, Gill etc, hello worst set of wingers in the NHL. Chicago - Toews + Kane on ELCs Right now its hard to say whether you can do a Detroit and remain a contender, or slip down the Anaheim/Tampa Bay top-heavy garbage chute. As Ken Holland said last year "there's only so many minimum salary guys you want on your team".

look at the Penguins. They won and people in the media threw the dynasty word around. Crosby and Malkin's huge contracts kicked in and they had to let go of 'role' players like Gill and Scuderi. They are still a good team but not as good as the team that won the Cup, and i think if they were in the west they would have barely made the playoffs. Its going to be the same with the Hawks. They won't tank, but they won't be the most stacked team in the league. in fact, chicago has worse contracts than the pens Its funny how many (not on this board though lol) now think Quenneville is a good coach with this win. The truth is, he was given the keys to such a stacked and loaded team that it would have been harder not to win the Cup this year. Such stacked teams don't come along often. In the salary cap world, this only happens when you have superstars that are still on their entry level contracts.

Hmmm...maybe because they just won the Stanley Cup? There's not a whole lot to talk about on an NHL board in the middle of June, believe it or not. Again, LOL at yet another Blackhawks fan that goes on a Red Wings forum (better yet, this one just registered) two days after his team won the Stanley Cup because he's more concerned with the Red Wings than the Blackhawks. Kind of ironic, seeing as the discussion is about them being the ones obsessing with the goings-on of a team that lost in the second round when they just won the friggin championship. How many threads were on this board about Colorado after the Wings won in 08? How many Crosby sucks chants did you hear afterwords?

Who cares? Seriously. Who cares? They won, they can chant/sing/say whatever the hell they want. To the victor go the spoils. Just like if we win the Cup next season, our fans can chant/sing/say whatever the hell THEY want. I've never seen a group of people more preoccupied with the goings-on of some other team's fan base than this one. Yeesh.

Gotta love a douchey heel.

Pronger probably said to Burish at some stage "I eat pieces of s*** like you for breakfast."

trade - no thanks. not worth the 3 million rfa - no thanks. losing valuable picks for a player of his caliber isn't worth it either

YEah, they won it because of hossa. Yeah, OK. Good one, you really burned me with that gem.

I'm still extremely disappointed that he s*** the bed here when it mattered most.

Yay for you hoseass! You finally leeched your way to a cup on your third try! Go go s***town on your long ass contract for a underperformer, better you than us!

But Hudler could never skate the puck from the neutral zone int the offensive zone. Zetterberg, Datsyuk, and Filppula are the only one's on the Wings that can do it.

You have to be kidding...